The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part 7

may be noted in ll. 8 and 10. For the order of the names Jesus Christ in l. 15 a parallel is only to be found in the versions, while the variants in ll. 10, 19, and 36 are apparently not otherwise recorded.

iii. 9

[in the faith to know Him and]
[the power of His resurrection]
[and the fellowship of the] sufferings
[of Him, being conformed] to the death
5 [of Him, if by any means] I may attain to
[the out-resurrection] from the dead.
[Not that I have already received] or have already been
[perfected, but I press on if I may] apprehend, for which
[also I was apprehended by Christ]. Brethren, I
10 [do not yet consider] myself to have
[apprehended, but] indeed, the things behind
[forgetting], but to the things before
[stretching], toward the goal
[I press] for the prize of the
15 [upward call] of God in Christ Jesus. As many
[therefore] as are perfect, let us think this; and
[if anything otherwise] you think, also this
[God to you] will reveal. Nevertheless, to
[what we have attained], in the same let us walk.
20 [Imitators] of me become, brethren, and

iv. 2

to think in the Lord. Yes, I ask also you,
true yoke-fellow, help them,
who in the gospel labored
with me, with also Clement
25 and the rest of my fellow-workers and the rest